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This draft is a work item of the HyperText Transfer Protocol Working Group
of the IETF.
Title : Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
Author(s) : J. Mogul, T. Berners-Lee, L. Masinter,
P. Leach, R. Fielding, H. Nielsen, J. Gettys
Filename : draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-rev-01.txt
Pages : 165
Date : 26-Nov-97
The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol
for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. It is a
generic, stateless, object-oriented protocol which can be used for many
tasks, such as name servers and distributed object management systems,
through extension of its request methods. A feature of HTTP is the
typing and negotiation of data representation, allowing systems to be
built independently of the data being transferred.
HTTP has been in use by the World-Wide Web global information initiative
since 1990. This specification defines the protocol referred to as
''HTTP/1.1''.
The issues list for HTTP/1.1 can be found at:
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Issues/.
This draft does not resolve all open issues in the HTTP/1.1
specification requiring closure before HTTP/1.1 goes to draft standard.
It does, however, close most of them, and note where in the document
there are still significant issues under discussion. The best way to
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http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.1/draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-rev-
01.doc; all issues are noted as comments in the source document, with
hyperlinks to the Issues list.
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